Community Pimp: A Friendly Tau Rules Reminder

Today, I got a little email from a concerned Tau player talking about how many people on the Internet (shocker) are getting the rules for Tau and Overwatch all wrong.

Dan Byer has taken upon himself to explain in the clearest terms exactly what you can and cannot do with Tau. Dan has a 40k blog where he explains all the things you are doing wrong with your Tau!

Here is an excerpt…

I have been reading a lot of the Tau tactica threads, totally not during work hours of course, and I decided to do a bit of detective work and put together a comprehensive list of which systems work for Overwatch/Interceptor, and which ones don’t. One of my favorite things about the Tau book is how specific the special rules are; for example, many of the shooting buffs specify that they only work in the shooting phase. Bam, no FAQ necessary! Well, almost… I’ll get to that in a minute.

A lot of the support/signature systems and other rules only work in your shooting phase, so they won’t help on Overwatch (which obviously occurs in the assault phase) or Interceptor shots (in the enemy movement phase).

• Command and Control Node and the Multi-spectrum Sensor Suite both specify that they only work in the shooting phase (so no benefits if firing via Interceptor), and also notes that they don’t work on Overwatch.

Dan goes on from there, but if you want to see more and send him your comments you will have to check out his blog at…

http://immaterium.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/tau-rules-clarification-public-service-announcement/

Thanks to Dan for point this out as he is right the Tau codex is VERY specific on what you can and cannot do!

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